Talkabout Parks, encouraging children to use language.pptx

Learning about colours, shapes, animals, weather etc.

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2. Education begins long
before a child goes
to Infant School. . .

This is a Ladybird talkabout
book. It is a book to be used—and
enjoyed—with young children and
has been specially planned with
the help of qualified nursery
school advisers.

All the books in this talkabout
series are designed to stimulate
conversation between child and
adult, encourage the early growth
of vocabulary, assist mental
development and provide a sound
basis for future progress in reading
and general awareness.

The use of too many questions has been
avoided, as it is more important to
encourage comment and discussion than
to expect particular answers.

Care has been taken to retain sufficient
realism in the illustrations and subject
matter to enable a young child to have fun
identifying objects, creatures and
situations.

It is wise to remember that patience and
understanding are very important, and that
children do not all develop evenly or

at the same rate. Parents should not be
anxious if children do not give correct
answers to those questions that are asked.
With help, they will do so in their own time.

The brief notes at the
back of this book will
enable interested parents
to make the fullest use
of these Ladybird
talkabout books.

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5. Talk about the colours

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9. Have you heard these?

10. Talk about
‘big’ and

‘little’, ‘large’
and ‘small’

11. Who owns
which dog?

12. Talk about spring

13. | Talk about summer

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15. Talk about winter

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21. Talk about what the men are doing

23. Which should ya
we put in
the basket?

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27. Suggestions for extending
the use of this
talkabout book...

The page headings are only brief suggestions
as to how the illustrations may be used.
However, these illustrations have been
planned to help children understand various
important concepts during their discussions
with you. For example, you can talk about
the children in the first ‘playground’ picture
going up and down on the see-saw, down
the slide, and round and round on the
roundabout. You can also talk about the
various human actions to be seen in other
pictures — running, climbing, sitting,
bending-over, picking-up, mowing, planting-
out, sweeping, etc.

In many of the illustrations (particularly, for
example, the ‘Look and find another like
this’ and ‘Match the pictures with the black
shapes’) visual differences of shape and
colour can be pointed out. The ability to

recognize differences in shape can be a great
help later when learning to read.

Together you can go through the book
finding all the dogs, or you can look for —
and talk about — anything that has wheels.
You can contrast the ‘summer’ and ‘winter’
pictures, pointing out the difference in the
clothes, trees, water and so on.

Very young children have to learn that
pictures can have a story sequence. It will
probably be necessary for you to tell the
first one or two ‘Tell the story’ sequences,
pointing at each picture in its correct order.
Eventually, and in their own time, children
often wish to tell the story themselves.

All through the book there are opportunities
for simple counting. For example, you can
say how many baby ducklings there are in
some pictures — and how many boats.

However, it must be emphasized that the
main aim of this book is that you should
enjoy discussing the illustrations.